Visio 2003 doesn't save shapes as dwg

[cgessler]

I am trying to save a room drawing that has exercise equipment in it as a dwg file. The problem is that the equipment doesn't show up in the dwg file when I check in Autosketch or dwg true view. The shape files were created in solidworks and autosketch10. How do I get them to show up?

[Yacine]

Try to convert them to proper Visio shapes - work with a copy of your original files!
Menu Shapes/Operations/Join

[cgessler]

Thank you Yacine, I will give it a shot.